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<h4><a href="https://rust-lang.zulipchat.com#narrow/stream/122651-general/topic/rfc%20underscores/near/158995539" class="zl"><img src="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/assets/img/zulip.svg" alt="view this post on Zulip" style="width:20px;height:20px;"></a> Jake Goulding <a href="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/stream/122651-general/topic/rfc.20underscores.html#158995539">(Feb 20 2019 at 17:36)</a>:</h4>
<p><span class="user-mention" data-user-id="126931">@centril</span> how much disaster would it be to rename RFC files to a consistent underscore or hyphen naming style?</p>



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<h4><a href="https://rust-lang.zulipchat.com#narrow/stream/122651-general/topic/rfc%20underscores/near/158997458" class="zl"><img src="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/assets/img/zulip.svg" alt="view this post on Zulip" style="width:20px;height:20px;"></a> RalfJ <a href="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/stream/122651-general/topic/rfc.20underscores.html#158997458">(Feb 20 2019 at 17:58)</a>:</h4>
<p>well all sorts of links would break</p>



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<h4><a href="https://rust-lang.zulipchat.com#narrow/stream/122651-general/topic/rfc%20underscores/near/159013248" class="zl"><img src="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/assets/img/zulip.svg" alt="view this post on Zulip" style="width:20px;height:20px;"></a> Jake Goulding <a href="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/stream/122651-general/topic/rfc.20underscores.html#159013248">(Feb 20 2019 at 20:47)</a>:</h4>
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<p>Another is the fateful de­ci­sion of the author of make to have the space char­ac­ter and the (visually identical) tab char­ac­ter do very dif­fer­ent things. Very early on, the story goes, the author re­al­ized that this was a mistake, but by that point dozens of people were relying on it—backward-compatibility needed to be preserved—and so the tabs had to stay.</p>
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<h4><a href="https://rust-lang.zulipchat.com#narrow/stream/122651-general/topic/rfc%20underscores/near/159022069" class="zl"><img src="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/assets/img/zulip.svg" alt="view this post on Zulip" style="width:20px;height:20px;"></a> centril <a href="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/stream/122651-general/topic/rfc.20underscores.html#159022069">(Feb 20 2019 at 22:42)</a>:</h4>
<p>please don't do it <span aria-label="slight smile" class="emoji emoji-1f642" role="img" title="slight smile">:slight_smile:</span> Ralf is right</p>



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<h4><a href="https://rust-lang.zulipchat.com#narrow/stream/122651-general/topic/rfc%20underscores/near/159025888" class="zl"><img src="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/assets/img/zulip.svg" alt="view this post on Zulip" style="width:20px;height:20px;"></a> Jake Goulding <a href="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/stream/122651-general/topic/rfc.20underscores.html#159025888">(Feb 20 2019 at 23:43)</a>:</h4>
<p><span class="user-mention" data-user-id="126931">@centril</span> can you add it to your checks when merging new RFCs then?</p>



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<h4><a href="https://rust-lang.zulipchat.com#narrow/stream/122651-general/topic/rfc%20underscores/near/159025954" class="zl"><img src="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/assets/img/zulip.svg" alt="view this post on Zulip" style="width:20px;height:20px;"></a> centril <a href="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/stream/122651-general/topic/rfc.20underscores.html#159025954">(Feb 20 2019 at 23:44)</a>:</h4>
<p><span class="user-mention" data-user-id="116155">@Jake Goulding</span> to always use hyphens? I try to, but... one forgets, and sometimes other people merge RFCs</p>



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<h4><a href="https://rust-lang.zulipchat.com#narrow/stream/122651-general/topic/rfc%20underscores/near/159048241" class="zl"><img src="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/assets/img/zulip.svg" alt="view this post on Zulip" style="width:20px;height:20px;"></a> RalfJ <a href="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/stream/122651-general/topic/rfc.20underscores.html#159048241">(Feb 21 2019 at 08:02)</a>:</h4>
<p>I mean I am all for consistency. I'm just saying we need redirects.</p>



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<h4><a href="https://rust-lang.zulipchat.com#narrow/stream/122651-general/topic/rfc%20underscores/near/159050524" class="zl"><img src="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/assets/img/zulip.svg" alt="view this post on Zulip" style="width:20px;height:20px;"></a> Dale Wijnand <a href="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/stream/122651-general/topic/rfc.20underscores.html#159050524">(Feb 21 2019 at 08:48)</a>:</h4>
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<p><span class="user-mention silent" data-user-id="116155">@Jake Goulding</span> to always use hyphens? I try to, but... one forgets, and sometimes other people merge RFCs</p>
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<p>CI validation on RFC PRs?</p>



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<h4><a href="https://rust-lang.zulipchat.com#narrow/stream/122651-general/topic/rfc%20underscores/near/159050838" class="zl"><img src="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/assets/img/zulip.svg" alt="view this post on Zulip" style="width:20px;height:20px;"></a> Dale Wijnand <a href="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/stream/122651-general/topic/rfc.20underscores.html#159050838">(Feb 21 2019 at 08:54)</a>:</h4>
<p>Alternatively move to rendering the rfcs repo as GitHub Pages, where redirecting is available... &lt;/can-of-worms&gt;</p>



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<h4><a href="https://rust-lang.zulipchat.com#narrow/stream/122651-general/topic/rfc%20underscores/near/159066570" class="zl"><img src="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/assets/img/zulip.svg" alt="view this post on Zulip" style="width:20px;height:20px;"></a> centril <a href="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/stream/122651-general/topic/rfc.20underscores.html#159066570">(Feb 21 2019 at 13:21)</a>:</h4>
<p><span class="user-mention" data-user-id="125311">@Dale Wijnand</span>  we do that already? <a href="https://rust-lang.github.io/rfcs/" target="_blank" title="https://rust-lang.github.io/rfcs/">https://rust-lang.github.io/rfcs/</a></p>
<p>I need to read RFCs a lot and I like that I can just use my browsers search history to navigate to things I remember, that saves me plenty of time</p>



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<h4><a href="https://rust-lang.zulipchat.com#narrow/stream/122651-general/topic/rfc%20underscores/near/159067017" class="zl"><img src="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/assets/img/zulip.svg" alt="view this post on Zulip" style="width:20px;height:20px;"></a> Dale Wijnand <a href="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/stream/122651-general/topic/rfc.20underscores.html#159067017">(Feb 21 2019 at 13:29)</a>:</h4>
<p>First of all TIL!</p>



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<h4><a href="https://rust-lang.zulipchat.com#narrow/stream/122651-general/topic/rfc%20underscores/near/159067030" class="zl"><img src="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/assets/img/zulip.svg" alt="view this post on Zulip" style="width:20px;height:20px;"></a> Dale Wijnand <a href="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/stream/122651-general/topic/rfc.20underscores.html#159067030">(Feb 21 2019 at 13:29)</a>:</h4>
<p>But maybe we should use that as the URL for "Rendered" (post-merge)?</p>



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<h4><a href="https://rust-lang.zulipchat.com#narrow/stream/122651-general/topic/rfc%20underscores/near/159067361" class="zl"><img src="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/assets/img/zulip.svg" alt="view this post on Zulip" style="width:20px;height:20px;"></a> centril <a href="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/stream/122651-general/topic/rfc.20underscores.html#159067361">(Feb 21 2019 at 13:32)</a>:</h4>
<p>I think the rendering on GH looks substantially better than mdbook and changing this adds more work for me, so I prefer things the way they are now</p>



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<h4><a href="https://rust-lang.zulipchat.com#narrow/stream/122651-general/topic/rfc%20underscores/near/159090006" class="zl"><img src="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/assets/img/zulip.svg" alt="view this post on Zulip" style="width:20px;height:20px;"></a> Dale Wijnand <a href="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/stream/122651-general/topic/rfc.20underscores.html#159090006">(Feb 21 2019 at 18:05)</a>:</h4>
<p>Yeah, I see, we'd need to invest some time to do away with some of that manual work.</p>



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